Legal Fellowship Programme
Positioned within the Access to Justice portfolio, the Legal Fellowship Programme (LFP) is aimed at promoting feminist lawyering in the region and enhancing the capacity of early and mid-career women, trans and intersex lawyers to advocate based on human rights principles. The goal is to establish a robust network of feminist lawyers in the region by empowering district-level lawyers at primary courts.
This is a restricted call for applications, limited to those invited to apply and referred to WFA by advisors, partners, former legal fellows, and allied and peer funds/donors. Women, trans, and intersex lawyers working at the district or primary courts from the 18 Asian locations (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Maldives, Nepal, the Philippines, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam) are eligible to apply.
Our Grants
Grant Sizes & Scopes
We believe that activists/lawyers themselves know best what they need and how they can best support their communities and assess their own capacity strengthening needs. As such, WFA is offering flexible support for this fellowship programme. Some examples of interventions we can fund under LFP include:
- Exchange programmes
- Legal conferences and workshops
- Events and convenings
- Access to justice related trainings and workshops
- Feminist legal theory and practice related trainings
- Feminism and gender related capacity building trainings
WFA will be providing an amount of
USD$6,000
over the period of 10 months.
- Travel and accommodation expenses for in-person meetings under this programme, organised by WFA, if any, will be covered by WFA.
- In relation to these meetings, participating lawyers may request support from WFA for their active participation in terms of language interpretation as well as sign language interpretation and reasonable accommodation (for persons with disabilities).
As of September 2024, WFA has provided
LFP grants, with the total committed amount of
USD
In 2020, Women’s Fund Asia Limited (WFAL) was registered as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee in Australia with registration under the Australian Charities and Not for Profit Commission. WFAL is a subsidiary of WFA, and its operations are controlled by WFA. WFA is the sole member of the Company. The Executive Director of WFA serves as its Executive head, with the responsibility of making it fully operational in a way to serve the mandate of WFA.
Contact
info@wf-asia.org | grants@wf-asia.org
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